About the lab
We study & engineer the roles of microbes in the global carbon cycle. Some projects in our group are motivated by engineering goals, aiming to build carbon negative technologies using autotrophic (CO2-eating) microbes. Other projects are motivated by problems that arise in climate models, which need to predict the collective respiration (CO2 production) by microbial communities in order to estimate future warming.
Because we are focused on microbial metabolism in natural settings, we also pursue basic questions in microbiology, systems biology, and ecology. If you have an interest in quantitative thinking, environmental systems, and/or microbial physiology and metabolism, drop us a line.